Amphilophui\ CLXiii. gramine^. 209 
spikelets, 2, lower one reduced to an empty glume, upper bisexual. 
Pedicelled ones, lower female or neuter, upper neuter or suppressed. 
Sessile spikelet; glumes I and II equal, thinly chartaceous; glume I 
2-keeled; glume II boat-shaped, 3-nerved; glume IV awned. 
Pedicelled spikelet awnless. Species 25 or more. Tropical Africa 
and Asia. 
Tall slender plant; inflorescence branched, lax . • (i) A. glabra 
Short plant; racemes crowded digitate; glume I pitted . (2) A. pertusa 
(1) A. glabra Stapf. FL Trop. Africa ix. 172. Andropogon 
intermedins Br. Prodr. 20; Hook, fil. F.B.I. vii. 175; Ridl. Mat. 
iii. 166. var. paupera Stapf. 
A perennial ascending grass about 3 ft. tall, glabrous. Culms 
slender. Leaves tufted at base, linear acuminate, 6 in. long, under 
•I in. wide. Panicle narrow, of few branches, slender, ascending. 
Racemes few, usually about 10, slender, grey. Pedicels ciliate with 
white hairs. Spikelets small, lanceolate. Glume I lanceolate trun¬ 
cate; glume II thinner, sub-acute; glume III shorter; lanceolate; 
glume IV reduced to a pale awn -5 in. long. Pedicelled spikelets 
narrow linear-lanceolate, of 3 glumes only. Hab. Roadsides and 
heathy country, not common. Pahang, Pekan. Malacca (Griffith). 
Selangor, Kwala Selangor. Kedah, Gurun to Alor Sta (Burkill). 
Perils, Kanga. Distrib. Indo-Malaya, Polynesia. 
The Kedah plant has glume I pitted. 
(2) A. pertusa Stapf. Ft. Trop. Afr. ix. 175. Andropogon 
pertusus Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 922; Hook. fit. F.B.I. vii. 173. 
Tufted grass, nodes bearded. Leaves linear, 2 to 12 in. long, 
•08 to *12 in. wide. Racemes 3 to 7, purplish, 2 in. long or less, 
crowded silky; rachis fragile, joints and pedicels silky. Sessile 
spikelets *14 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, with a large pit towards 
the tip. Hab. Malacca (Hervey), very rare, possibly introduced. 
Distrib. Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia. 
21. DICHANTHIUM, Willem. 
Perennial, rarely annual, grasses. Culms slender, simple or 
branched. Leaves narrow. Racemes solitary (or as many as 
4 together). Spikelets 2, i sessile, i pedicelled, similar in shape, 
different in sex. Sessile spikelet with 2 flowers, one reduced to a 
single glume, the upper one hermaphrodite. Pedicelled spikelet 
with I male or neuter flower. Sessile spikelets dorsally compressed, 
awned, callus bearded. Glumes I and II equal, chartaceous. 
Glume I keeled margins incurved ; glume 11 boat-shaped; glume III 
hyaline; glume IV reduced to an awn. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. 
Grain oblong blunt, dorsally compressed. Species 8, tropics and 
sub-tropics of Old World. 
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